Siti Nuramira Abdullah was unable to attend the second day of the trial as she was down with “viral gastroenteritis”, her lawyer, R Sivaraj, informed sessions court judge Nor Hasniah Ab Razak.

“Her symptoms were fever, vomiting and abdominal cramp,” the lawyer told the court, adding that Nuramira was admitted at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre.

Sivaraj showed the judge a soft copy of a medical certificate issued to Nuramira for one day, which the accused shared with him via a WhatsApp message.

Unable to verify the authenticity of the certificate, Nor Hasniah ordered Nuramira’s bailor to furnish the court with the original document.

The trial was postponed to Wednesday after the original certificate was produced.

Sivaraj was scheduled to continue his cross-examination of prosecution witness Asyraf Kamal Musthaffa today.

Yesterday, Asyraf, who hosted the show at the Crackhouse Comedy Club on June 4 last year, testified that he had been “taken aback” by Nuramira’s performance on stage.

He also said he did not know who recorded Nuramira’s performance that day, but claimed that he had told the audience not to take video recordings and photographs of the performance.

Nuramira is charged under Section 298A of the Penal Code, which provides that whoever causes disharmony, disunity, or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill will on grounds of religion, between persons or groups of persons professing the same or different religions, commits an offence.

The offence is punishable with imprisonment of between two and five years.